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This is Dark Cloud on Wednesday, September 30, 1998. Another revealed letter to the public has further blemished what must be called the Ramsey case. If one were going to select the most deleterious feature of this on-going horror, you would be hard put to exaggerate the danger to legal procedure highlighted by these last day on the job screeds. First, a former detective of the Boulder Police resigned and wrote a scathing indictment of the Boulder District Attorney's office, saying they had botched the case against the Ramseys. Then, last week, an investigator for the DA's department resigned, saying that the Ramseys were inno-cent and the case so far was nothing more than a witch-hunt against John and Patsy Ramsey. What to think about two such betrayals of standard investigative ethics and police work? Especially so mutually exclusive in nature. Well, perhaps mutually exclusive is not the correct term. After all, there is nothing to refute the extreme likelihood that both the police and the DA botched their own areas, and they are now engaged in emphasizing the deficiencies of the other to place themselves in the best light. To skim the surface, the Ramseys reported a kidnapping. Somehow, that suggests to me that the Ramsey house should have been sealed as a crime scene, and that a relatively thorough police search ought to have been conducted for evidence, sufficient enough to have revealed a body found so quickly by John Ramsey right after. Second, once the body was found, the two or three most likely suspects should have been grilled thoroughly. For those of you who feel that would not have been appropriate, consider again what police would have been like if the suspects were Juan and Maria Valdez and lived in a modular home. To call the DA hesitant and rather notional in his office's pursuit of justice is to exaggerate the visible energy he has thus far displayed. There is the thought that DA Alex Hunter, a Democrat, is rather in awe if not in debt to one of the Ramsey lawyers, a national bagman for the Democratic Party. Others say that the clique of people that included the Ramseys extends into the DA's office, and above, and that Hunter is protecting a hidden group of Minever Cheevys and Richard Coreys who prefer that the public not be aware, at this point, that they enjoy attending functions where four to six year old girls strip in parody - one can only hope it's a parody - of burlesque queens or rock stars. The theory here goes that the money behind such enjoyments stomps on the pursuit of justice. It may all be true, and none of it may be true. But the people who are in charge have failed in their duty to Jon Bonet Ramsey. For one thing, why are these pornographic child pageants allowed to continue? The Christian fanatics would have heart failure if a local high school pageant featured such lascivious performance as those poor four year olds apparently accomplished. The silence from our moral arbiters has been rather deafening. That alone gives much credence to the thought that this investigation has been corrupted from the git go by hidden agendas, and that initial incompetence by the police - while a problem - is not and has not been the real impediment. In three months, Jon Bonet Ramsey will have been dead two years. Her murder case has just gone to a Grand Jury, a construct referred to nationally as a District Attorney's poodle. |
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